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"Basketball" is a rap song written by William Waring, Robert Ford, Kurtis Blow, J. B. Moore, Jimmy Bralower, and Full Force and recorded by Kurtis Blow, released in 1984 from his album Ego Trip. Song history
James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.
The song features additional vocals by Michael McDonald, who co-wrote the song with Loggins. The song won a Grammy Award in 1981 for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. NBC Sports used the song as theme music for its coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1980 and 1981.
Basketball Jones is a 1973 animated short film based on the Cheech and Chong song. The cartoon was created to promote the song's release in the United States. It is about a teenager named Tyrone Shoelaces and his love of basketball. The short was designed by animator Paul Gruwell who was known at the time for The Banana Splits.
"One Shining Moment" is a song written by David Barrett that has become closely associated with the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. "One Shining Moment" is traditionally played at the end of CBS's and TBS's coverage of the championship game of the tournament.
A Duke basketball player has helped a song about college go viral. ... “Why does it feel like the opening number to a new broadway show,” @ameliahr17 wrote.
"Roundball Rock" has since been revived for NBC's coverage of basketball at the Summer Olympics on multiple occasions. It was first brought back in 2008 in commercial bumpers and starting lineup announcements. [9] NBC has since used the theme song for all its Summer Olympics basketball events since 2016. [10] [11] [12]
The song is a mid-tempo country ballad, mostly accompanied by acoustic guitar and saxophone. It was written as a tribute to basketball player and jazz musician Wayman Tisdale, who died on May 15, 2009. [1] In it, the narrator is crying, but states he is not crying for Tisdale's death, rather crying for himself.